Discriminations

Community colleges do not have preference or quota programs. What they are speaking of are programs that allow you to recruit, provide educational counseling/tutoring programs for, and track the academic progress of nonwhite students. While Ward Connerly - ites claim that their measure would not threaten those, the reality is that it would be extremely difficult and perhaps impossible in practice to fund and run those programs after the passage of such an initiative. (Connerly's second initiative, by the way, which forbids the state from collecting any data on race, would make it impossible.)

Of course, your response might be "good riddance." However, that would be ignoring the fact that due to a variety of factors (cultural, financial, attending low quality K - 12) blacks perform terribly in college. Conservatives like to point out that black affirmative action admits struggle. That may be so, but the truth is that blacks have higher dropout rates than whites no matter their credentials or the types of schools that they attend. Unless it is your position that the state has a vested interest in the educational failure of black students, I would like to see what the supporters of these initiatives have in mind to address that area. As for Ward Connerly, after stopping unqualified blacks from going to the University of California, he took absolutely no interest in the fact that a disproportionate number of blacks were still flunking out of California State University, and proposed absolutely no solutions beyond school voucher schemes that he well knew had absolutely no chance of ever being enacted in California, and an even less chance of actually helping kids in places like Watts, Oakland, and South Central Los Angeles (places so culturally and economically dysfunctional that few free market solutions would succeed) even if they were enacted.

Actually, community colleges do have preference programs -- not in admissions, since they are not selective, but in hiring.

There was nothing in Prop. 209; there is nothing in the anti-preference initiatives passed in Wash. and Michigan; and there is nothing in the proposed initiatives that would in any way inhibit counseling or tutoring programs for at risk students, nor does Ward Connerly oppose such programs.